Curdy Buff

Malignd malignd at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 23 11:31:50 CDT 2003


Off on my own meaningless tangent--

I was noting in the Index that the "Zemblan patriot"
Baron Harfar Shalksbore was known as Curdy Buff. 
Aside from Curdy Buff's being funny, I was wondering
what connections might come from the joining as a name
of "curdy" and "buff," particularly in relation to
Shalksbore, begging to be read as "Shakespeare."

Googling Curdy Buff led to: 

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001Lx0

--which, as it turned out, contained a somewhat
simple-minded discussion of Hamlet's "To be or not to
be" soliloquy:  the name of one poster being Joseph S.
Curdy and another poster writing " I think I am
related to Hamlet! And I have pics of him in the
buff."  

Whatever that might mean.

This last poster signed him(her)self Zor Ko
(shackoflove at hotmail.com).  

A Zemblan name if ever I've heard one.



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